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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"virginity"”.
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Maintaining Untraditional Virginity
… virgin. Those tales establish the fragility of virginity within the poem, especially when a female is a beautiful huntress. According to those factors, Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt, should be unable to maintain her virginity. However, she defies convention and keeps her virginity, …
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For the First Time - A Phenomenology of Virginity
I argue that virginity is a distinct phenomenon with essential structures that can be apprehended and described using a phenomenological method, and thus offer the first robust phenomenology of virginity. A more complex passage than the physical transaction of first sexual intercourse, virginity …
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Reluctant virginity: the relationship between sexual status and self-esteem
<p>The purpose of this study is to identify group differences between sexual status (reluctant virgins, satisfied virgins, and non-virgins) in college students. Specifically, this study explored differences between groups in self-esteem (global, social, and body), dating (length of relationship and …
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Gendering virginity and violence in Ælfric’s lives of female saints
… status and the subsequent inextricability of virginity from female sanctity. It argues that virginity as a state is typically gendered female and that there is a conflation of virginity with female beauty within Ælfric’s Lives. This can be seen in the epithets ascribed to the female saints …
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The Certificate of Virginity: Honor, Marriage and Moroccan Female Immigration
Although Moroccan female-initiated migration to Europe has captured the attention of scholars in various fields of study, the majority of these studies have focused on macro-level analysis of resettlement and integration patterns. These studies, however, have bypassed the subtle impact of the …
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Reclaiming virginity, liberating desire : a study of three women's novels
… I adopt a reading of Luce Irigaray's concept of virginity to explore these writer's search for an identity beyond that defined by patriarchy. Traditionally, virginity is informed by a series of dichotomies (for example, man/woman, active/passive, day/night, etc.) associated with silence and …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
… and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae Christi. I argue that unlike much modern cinema, specifically Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and Chris Newby's Anchoress, which attempts to reify the present at the expense …
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… to seventeen female Egyptian protesters, virginity tests. This thesis analyzes the military's justification and Samira Ibrahim's discursive response to the virginity tests. I analyze the military's use of "virginity" in their justification for the virginity tests, through the theoretical …
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Perceptions of Sex, Virginity, and Consent: Considering Gender, Sexuality, and Alcohol Consumption
… perceptions of what acts constitute a loss of virginity (study 1) and are considered sex (study 2) for each partner in heterosexual and same-sex interactions as well as how these perceptions might change with varying levels of consent (study 3). Participants (Total N = 1,310) read situational …
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Causal attributions, self-monitoring, and gender differences among four virginity status groups
… was to determine whether or not different virginity status groups make different causal attributions about virginity and sexual choices, to determine whether self-monitoring influences this attribution process, and to determine whether or not there were any group sex differences.This …
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Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
… the most outspoken advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical and social contexts of his teachings. Considering Ambrose's treatises on virginity as literary productions with …
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Harmful traditional practices, (male circumcision and virginity testing of girls) and the legal rights of children
In South Africa the practice of virginity testing is most prevalent in KwaZulu-Natal amongst the Zulu and Xhosa. Proponents of the practice claim that some of the benefits include the prevention of the spread of HIV/Aids as well as teenage pregnancy and the detection of children who are sexually …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
<p>Despite centuries of Christian theologians and lay Christians alike assigning and/or accepting an entrenched misogyny in the writings of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, close examination of their work on its own terms and in its own time reveals that, in fact, they did not hold women in lesser …
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Becoming-Virgin: Re-Virginisation Practices in Turkey
… refers to the regaining of women’s ‘technical’ virginity even though the woman might have had penile-vaginal intercourse before. While virginity takes on many different meanings that are culturally determined and socially constructed, ‘technical’ virginity refers to ‘proving’ virginity through …
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Toward a Protestant theology of celibacy : Protestant thought in dialogue with John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
… and more particularly the section entitled "Virginity for the Sake of the Kingdom." There he examines Jesus' instruction in Matt 19:11-12, celibacy as vocation, the superiority of celibacy to marriage, celibacy as redemption of the body, Paul's instructions in 1 Cor 7, and virginity as human …
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Cults of Artemis in Ancient Greece
… in local cults? Artemis vacillates between virginity conceived as maidenly exquisiteness and celibacy symbolizing natural wilderness. My hypothesis is that in the eyes of the Greeks, virginity, far from being 'absence' or lack of sexuality (as has often been supposed), was indeed the …
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The constitutionality of the Maiden Bursary
… law, legislation, and existing literature on virginity testing.
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Virgin Territory: Theology, Purity, and the Rise of the Global Sex Trade
… </p><p>In Part I, I argue that the narratives of virginity tied to Mary’s body simultaneously foregrounded the gendered, sexed Other as sparked disdain for the religious Other, for the Jewish body and for Mary’s Jewish identity. Through this analysis I explore the connections of racial identity to …
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